Apple unveils iPhone 7 and dual-cam iPhone 7 Plus

Apple has today unveiled the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. As with previous generations, the main differences between the two models are screen size and the camera. The 4.7" 1334 x 750 pixel Retina display in the iPhone 7 is 25% brighter than before and offers a wider color gamut. As before, it supports 3D touch. The iPhone 7 Plus screen offers the same characteristics but is 5.5" large and comes with a 1920 x 1080 resolution.

Official iPhone 7 sample photos, courtesy Apple

Like its predecessor, the iPhone 7 comes with a 12MP camera. However, the new model features optical image stabilization and sensor readout is 60% faster than before. At F1.8 the aperture of the six-element lens is wider and the new true-tone flash comes with 4 LEDs for more power output and better color balance. There is also a new flicker-sensor that can detect flickering in ambient light and correct for it at image capture.

Apple claims the new in-house designed ISP is faster than before and can complete tasks, such as noise reduction, image stacking and exposure control in approximately 25ms. The moving Live Photos are now captured using video image stabilization and the 7th iPhone generation is the first capable of saving Raw data in DNG format. There is also 4K video and both 1080p and 720p slow-motion modes. At the front the pixel count has been increased from 5 to 7MP.

Next to the standard 28mm module is a 56mm tele-lens with its own 12MP sensor

The larger iPhone 7 Plus model's camera comes with all the iPhone 7 features but adds a second camera module. Next to the standard 28mm module is a 56mm tele-lens with its own 12MP sensor, and this dual cam implementation is predominantly used for zooming. In the camera app you can tap a zoom button to change to the 2x lens, and drag it all the way up to a 10x magnification. After 2x magnification the zoom applies digital magnification, but given the 'base image' captured by the tele-lens uses a longer focal length than other smartphone cameras, the quality of digitally zoomed images should be better than normal.

The camera's second headline feature is a shallow-depth-of-field simulation as we've seen it on several other devices before. The mode is automatically activated in the Portrait scene mode. 'Depth Mode' will be provided via a software update later this year, so we'll have to wait a little while to find out if it performs better than the systems we've seen so far.

The home button has been improved and provides taptic feedback for notifications and other events. Additionally, the iPhone 7 models are the first ones to come with stereo speakers which provide twice the volume and a higher dynamic range than the previous generation. The devices are powered by Apple's new A10 Fusion 64-bit four-core chipset, of which Apple says it is 40% faster than the previous A9 chip. Thanks to a new GPU graphics power has been increased by 50% as well.

In terms of design, the new models come with a similar basic shape to the previous generation but the antennae are now embedded in the enclosure and therefore almost invisible. The new models are also available in a new high-gloss finish which goes through an anodization process for protection. The body is water and dust resistant in line with the IP67 standard and will be available in jet-black, black (blasted aluminum), gold, silver or rose gold. There will be 32, 128 and 256GB storage options for both new models and pre-ordering starts on September 9. Start of shipping is scheduled for September 16.

The iPhone 7 starts at $649 for the 32GB version, for the Plus model you'll have to invest at least $769.

If you observe the bokeh, its not even close to S7. Also, colors are punched too much, S7 image showing accurate color comparatively. The focus was set on htc logo in the picture.PS: Selfie camera on iPhone 7 is the best in market.

They had no choice this was a potential PR disaster. They even admit they have no idea how many phones it effects. Worse case scenario is one of the phones catching fire on a plane. or one catching fire in the middle of the night in a persons home. Either could result in death.

The issue with the iPhone was due to peoples stupidity of putting them in their front/back pocket and sitting down.

My daughter and her husband both have Samsung Galaxy phones and I can honestly say their pictures are no better than my IPhone 7S, and a lot of times their pictures are not as sharp. I have nothing against any smart phone, I just go for the quality and how the phone works. My daughter is now on her 3rd Galaxy, the other 2 just quit working. I still have my IPhone 4S that still works perfectly. I have found that IPhones just last longer and I do not care for android OS. A lot of people buy android phones but I think the price has a lot to do with it. Android phones are a lot cheaper than IPhones, but in my experience you get what you pay for.

apples os is better than androids , and apple has certain rules for apps that respect input and button pushes from the user making apples snappier and more responsive ... but i really hate apple and consider the sensor they use to be smallest and worst in class

hilarious ....apple is still dicking it customers around ....i couldnt resist

also to the dp review thought police .... i attempted to copy editorial content that used the medically correct term for the male sex organ and was prevented by your automated system .... who are you ??? apple

i have never witnessed a forum member [ no pun intended] obsess over butts or mention them like you do jf69

i mention facts.... you mention butts .... either you realize how sucky the iphone music and imaging are or you are incapable of forming an intelligent reply my valid observations of iphones various inadequacies

they cant even properly launch the 7 in china , and have embarrassed themselves .... no made fools of themselves, ... in the eyes of 2 billion chineseby not doing even the most basic research like the Chevy nova .... the "no go" to the mexican car buyer , apple becomes part of histories biggest advertising blunders

cant wait for your response , which will of course mention buttsi dont have issue with you being gay ... its a life choice , and your human right but must you mention your obsession evert single post ...hmmmm?

Cosinaphile, I've seen your name pop up many times in this thread and you clearly have a maturity issue.

It's a product you are not forced or compelled to purchase or use. But you're so "passionate" with your hate towards it and have taken to ridiculous levels.

Let it go! Go outside and find a nice relaxing restaurant have a great dinner with the money you're saving by not being a minion of Apple.

Remember Mac vs PC? Those were entertaining commercials full of propaganda. And I could not STAND the constant barrage of hate on Windows as if Macintosh was this messiah of operating systems. But I did cry and whine on forums about it. I just cried and whined to my friends. :P

When I first heard of the iPhone...blah...I scoffed...so stooooopid!! until...that is...I saw the first commercial for it. And as an amateur photographer, instantly drawn to the idea of having a digital portfolio always in my pocket to show off my photos (not taken with iPhone). And since then, I have been an iPhone zealot...for MYSELF.

I do not pimp the device to anyone else but me. But I do make fun of friends and teased my girlfriend about their non-iPhone devices (btw, my girlfriend's Galaxy S6's camera is far superior, in my opinion, to my iPhone 6).

I still tease about Apple's cult of fans. Many are very cultlike. Probably belong to Scientology. But I still love my iPhone. I think it's the best smart phone device out there (overall) and the OS is very easy to get into and figure out. I'm very techy but with an Android, I feel lost. I know I'd get used to it, but Apple iOS required no getting used to. It just felt right...oh damn...now I sound like those cultlike Apple zealots...ugh. I'm going to go drown myself now.

to summarize...chill out! let people enjoy their devices...even if they, to you, are terrible.

@ciaspook .youve seen my name pop up many times ? who are you ? the cia? honestly. as long as were naming names i see you everywhere too but im too mature to follow you and moniter your opinion of applei suggest you search for and get a life

SPOOK..so you think an iphones a useful portfolio ?are you joking..you do know the resolution of iphone is that of an entry level crt monitor of 20 yrs ago..no swappable sd support..digital pocketed monitor ?honestly dude ..pull the other one ... if you're serious about having a pocket solution for photography try a 2560 monitor oled phablet with better sensor and support for sd..your wearing blinders

in the past 4 month s ive purchased an xpro2 . a pen F... 56mm1.2 fuji...10-24 f4 fuji...a phone .is out of the question just now to be honest all you have revealed is your own obsessed fixation with the cost of your phone...which we all know TBT or ive misjudged you unfairly ...

I scrolled through this topic (only this topic) found you have left a few comments. All of which lack maturity. No stalking. No following. I was NOT looking for you. I was merely reading various comments yours stood out because of this interaction and continued nonsense.

I do not recall which year the iPhone came out...2005? 2006? This is well before iPads and other tablets. Before you freak out any further, I'm not talking about a serious portfolio. Nothing beats an actual PRINT. And I kept a couple portfolios in my car. But often I'm somewhere I couldn't just say, "hey, let me go to my car." And I don't make a habit of carrying around printed portfolios or carry tablets (which didn't exist at the time). And my previous phone had a...I think a 1x1.5 inch screen. So yeah...the iPhone 3Gs was AWESOME by comparison. Photos look awesome by that day's standard.

Cosina...the height of the wars...pre-internet? I'm sorry...maybe this was pre you and you're much much younger than I thought. I'll ask again, do you remember the Mac vs PC commercials? with the ACTORS. "Hi, I'm a Mac." and "Hi, I'm a PC". The Mac actor was this hip looking young adult with clever stuff to say. Whereas the PC actor was a bit overweight, kind of greasy looking IT nerd. Early 2000s.

listen spookyvision the apple commercial biting off George Orwells novel of a fascist totalitarian future where language and meaning and truth are made topsy turvy , and oh how you remind me of it ..... well that was 1984 that was the year it ran and it was challenging and mocking pcs at the time and the wars continued

please let my know how much time you you spent on the internet in 1984....my goodness ....yuo really are a funny guy

and for the record the stork brought me in 1958 so 9im almost 5 times older than you im guessing .....correct me if im wrong

Well, I'm pleased with getting the new iPhone 7plus. It's an advancement in technology and with that comes change. I'm not so old yet that I can not Del with change. I like the second camera lens because I expect it will provide images with less distortion than the wide angle. 50mm is actually a sweet spot for a cameras lens . I have the 6s now and always regretted not getting the larger plus model. I ordered the 7 plus this time . I shoot many pictures and the larger display makes for a better sharing experience. Maybe I should sy viewing experience. The headphone jack is not a concern at all. I believe the Lightning connector may very well provide better audio. Only time will tell. I'm also a bit puzzled by this idea of the English. RAW . Shooting in RAW requires a software converter program . I've heard no mention of such. Its funny how much 3mphasis we put on the camera capabilities of what is supposed to be a phone ? I think it's more of a camera with built in phone features.

Osa25 , I wont because unfortunately my hearing is so degraded that i wear hearing aides . Im sure I personally dont discern the audio quality a lot of people do. I have a set of over the ears head phones which are bluetooth . They even work when my hearing aides are in.

I carried the 6 plus for a year. I'm done with the weight, the size. My pants fall down, nothing else fits in the pocket. I'm going for the 7 normal. Jet black, neve sen s matt black car. Can't live with white border, love the black front. Never used the size of the plus, no app made a difference. While the camera is intriging, I find pictures of small groups (the social pictures) are great for the first camera. Portraits with the iPhone...will rather use a Fuji and get barbie doll skin tones.

Not quite .. . Internally, almost EVERY camera "shoots RAW" and temporarily keeps it in memory. Software then applies changes (your sharpness, colour etc. settings) to the file in memory, writes a JPG with your settings to the card (or user partition).Back "then", most cameras deleted the RAW out of memory. I speculate that space would have been the reason. Remember 256MB CF cards?

Apple, like many camera makers have done for a decade is just allowing you to save the RAW file as well (or instead).

it t is my fervent hope that the removal of a normal audio jack , bites them in the ass and that very few i phone user migrate to this abomination

apple has gotten away with no sd card support and no usb support because frankly the religiously faithful accept what they are given ,

as someone born a roman catholic ...ive seen the glassy eyed bliss of the faces of some of the simple minded as they consume transmuted human flesh in the form of a nutritionally worthless wafer the texture of a packing peanut

so nothing suprises me .... but if i ever prayed , i pray that the removal of a normal audio jack , causes as or more damage to apple as the spectacularly pointless and worth less apple watch .. i hope their stock tanks ... i hope they are shamed into an about face

Why on earth would someone "pray" (as an atheist myself I find the word funny) for a consumer product to succeed or fail, unless he had a business interest in the company? An iPhone is just a product. You either like it, in which case you can choose to buy it, or not like it, in which case there is a wealth of other, beautiful devices to choose from. Buy what you like and allow others the same privilege.

Why would you this? What if this Lightning port for audio IS better? Why would you oppose something better? Because it's different? Because you're not used to it?

I'm neutral on the idea and leaning more negative, but only because I hate having adapters. And the audio plug is more of a snug fit whereas the lightening connector can be EASILY disconnected on accident.

No SD card support? oh cry me a river. Don't forget to complain about the permanent battery forcing you to bring chargers. OMG!!

USB support? what is wrong with it's USB support? If it's the requirement to have iTunes to import music...yeah...I feel ya. I love the android drag and drop and be done. I am not a fan of iTunes.

I understand not liking something and explaining why. But to wish for the failure? Grow up.

I had a good laugh at this, so thanks. I don't get the hate though. They're just phones, and it's good to have these guys pushing the envelope in terms of tech and user interface. The lack of headphone jack does not look good. On the other hand, I'm kind of sick of having my headphone cable get in the way or getting it caught on something, ripping it out of my ears. Also, wrapping up a meter of wire is a bit of a pain. Then you have to worry about the bluetooth connection quality, and then if you hardly use them, what's going to happen to the battery? They'll be out of juice and useless when you do want them, and the batteries are going to eventually die, needing replacement.

I will say this though: Google's implementation of maps, gmail, calendar(!!), contacts, etc. are so much better than the cheap apple cr-apps. You wouldn't believe how many times my alarm clock apps have failed.

On topic - I remember when apple quit putting floppy drives in computers, people freaked out... I remember when apple stopped putting certain ports in their computers, people freaked... Apple stopped putting optical drives in most computers, I hardly heard a peep...

The only thing about the headphone jack missing I see is, I have a $200 set of headphones, and I use them when I fly. So now I won't be able to use them with an iPhone 7, but I use android anyway... But...

I'm at a loss to see the logic behind the headphone jack omission, however most "expensive" headphones come with a 6.5 adaptor. Instead of that you just use the lightning to 3.5 adaptor. Not ideal but hardly difficult.

im a frickin athiest ..... get a funnybone ... i dont want appliances with the kind of market share apple has leading copycat makers in the android world down that slippery slope ... i feel strongly that the abandonment of the audiojack standard is a profound mistake , hence i "pray" to the technology gods that this product makes the same splash as the worthless APPLE WATCH

LOOK YOU DONT HAVE TO AGREE WITH ME its fine if you dont .... if this does poorly i will be happy dont get too emotionally invested in it ... im not wishing the death of a family member of yours ....... or am i.... depends on how psychotically attached to apple one is

so i pray this tanks , i hope offshore drilling is not economical for the oil mafia i condemn fracking and hope the entire leadership and corporate board of monsanto gets some weird genetic catastrophe and perish ... and i wish every whaling vessel in existance goes down in a freak storm . add your list below and crack a smile

i actually purchased an iphone 6s [64gb]in rose gold for my 12 years old goddaughters birthday about 8 months ago unlocked from the lively apple store in grand central station nyc

as i said she is 12 years old and completely smitten with apple and love to make fun of my htc one max which is a source o9f much amusment for me

so you are mistaken i know exactly what an i phone is and even transferred her sim card into it .... its lovely to hold ill admit..... but as i despise apple and all its doings ill never personally own one. as to my social event status ?

well people frickin love me ... im educated have a great sense of humor love cameras computers and gadgets im widely read and a decent photographer and watercolorist . and can discuss almost anything .. so people frickin love me at social events ....so take a number

The 7's advertising slogan in china....ltranslates to 'This is pen is' [cant write that word thats a male counterpart to clitoris here apparently]

in Cantonese: Users in Hong Kong mock Apple's advertising....

one would think a company with apples financial resources could research this before embarrassing themselves so completely in that important emerging market .....years ago the NOVA automobile was selling poorly in spanish speaking markets ..... they finally translated the name into spanish and got a clue ..... it means dosent go !

lets all welcome to the cant buy a clue club, their newest member.... ladies and gentleman....heeeeeeeers ,....apple![please use ed macmahon voice !]

I always believed DSLR cameras are for still shots and there are greatest video cameras (the one's used in movie shoot). Still new series DSLR coming up with 4K features in D500 - happy to see that.•Optical zoom at 2x; 6x digital zoom (iPhone 7 Plus only) - this is not true. In DSLR it depends on what lens you are using. digital zoom is not what DSLR is meant for. There are many digital point and sheet cameras (like Sony, Nikon, etc) which are capable of doing this. Need to remember those are not real zoom, they crop the picture.•Body and face detection - DSLR like D500/D5500 have this (not the body - whats the point?)•Noise reduction - there are ISO NR and other settings in DSLR•Playback zoom - not suitable for DSLR. point and shoot cameras have though

Why would that be surprising? Its much, much harder to design these things into Full Frame or Medium Format sensors -- for example -- than it is to design it in junk sensors like the iPhone's. And let's keep in mind that the iPhone is a U$750 dollar device, where the phone part is already sorted, and really they are just working on the software (other companies working on hardware). Considering that something like a Nikon D5500 is an excellent crop camera, but still isn't $750, and no where near has the scale of production as iPhones, you can see how Apple has plenty of money to invest in making it work. Getting those large sensors to work properly (for photography) AND video at the same time, in Full frame and Medium Format, is very difficult. Its difficult enough in Cropped bodies (while preserving things like low-light ability and DR, color, etc). The iPhone seems to really depend on its Flash for photography & any condition other than ideal is hit or miss.

Why not a simple built-in intervalometer for 3400 D/5500 D or 1300D /750D ? There is no hardware limitation for that ? ML does not have plenty of money at least no more than Canon or Apple, yet their intervalometer on my 700D works well. The issue is artificial restrictions in the lower end through software even when the hardware supports it to give people reason to move upmarket.

Actually, I'm quite happy Samsung and Apple are applying this pressure (among others), because it pushes the industry. However, I think DSLR manufacturers know they have a captured audience (at least for now), and are more concerned about Mirrorless. I have been saying 5 years now that if Samsung & Apple teamed up to make a DSLR, it would KILL EVERYTHING in the market. Samsung needs Apple's name. And Apple needs Samsungs technology. The problem of course, is that these companies are run by idiots. Apple would probably simplify it worse than a Nikon 1, and neither of them are smart enough to co-brand as a powerhouse force to be reckoned with. Samsung was just starting to be like Sony, but didn't have the will power to keep pushing the way Sony has. Imagine if Samsung had Apple's courage & brandpower, and imagine if Apple had Samsung's technology & capability (in DSLR). They could easily match Sony & beat them in quality, sales & innovations.

Not from the sample pictures apple supplied. Galaxies are still on the top. iPhone 6s to 7 there are improvements as it moved from f/2.2 to f/1.8, but galaxy has the better aperture with f/1.7 and bigger sensor. can't expect much than the gimmick of dual camera.

Will the bokeh effect be limited to faces in the foreground (as the samples and use of portrait mode to trigger the effect suggest), or will the AI also be able to distinguish flowers, food, and other objects focused on in the foreground?

Removing the mini-jack feels like fixing something that isn't broken. But iFans are fiercely loyal, if Apple removed the LCD, defenders would say "but they are including a Lightning-to-HDMI cable in the box you can plug into your laptop should you need to". ;-)

For people who enjoy shooting with their phones, the camera could be interesting.

raindance: Analog is how digital devices interact with anything that doesn't exist inside the digital domain. If the digital to analog conversion isn't taking place in the smartphone, then it's taking place in the headphones--and what a brave new world, where the consumer electronics industry gets to charge more because they had to put a DAC and amp in their headphones just to be compatible with something that never was a problem before! With your logic we should also be removing screens from digital devices, because they represent digital information in an analog fashion. If the user hasn't learned how to think in machine code, well, that's just their problem isn't it?

Klarno, your screen analogy makes no sense. I understand how you feel about the DAC, but wireless is the future and it makes sense as devices continue to shrink. You don't expect an analog jack on a smart watch do you ? No, it's not practical and yet more and more people are buying smart watches and one of the key features is controlling music. The future is wire free, I think that is a given. DACs will continue to improve and for a majority of people the DACs in many bluetooth headphones is more than sufficient.

The Jack is just a way to extort accessory money and make the make the phone cheaper on the PRETENSE of better sound. A D/A converter and amps theoretically work BETTER inside the phone - closer to the power supply for better dynamics (did I really just say that about a phone?) and more space for it (better design possible).

This might be the first really useful and meaningful innovation in cameraphone technology since Nokia N8 / 808 PureView .Although several attempts have been made to make use of a dual camera Setup, none of them (HTC, Huawei, LG) was really convincing or sophisticated enough in order to provide a true advantage over traditional mono-camera setups.For example: Huawei truly failed to reap the benefits (such as improved SNR, lesser noise etc) from combining Information from two sensors. HTC's implementation of computational bokeh from their own take on the dual camera setup was just underwhelming, and, dear folks at LG, who in their right mind is going to make use of an UWA lens that was added to a WA lens?Now, let's get some popcorn and see how Apple's implementation of WA + short tele is going to work. Maybe it's gonna be the first sophisticated attempt in making use of an additional sensor/lens. I hope so!

i just used the UWA lens on my G5:- filming in a rather small back yard setting, without the need to move further back.- taking pictures of tall buildings from up close. well, ok, i just tried it to see how it looks, but still, it will make trips in crowded city areas much better. it will be like having two backup cameras, not just one.

the IQ is not that great, granted, but it's usable. better than not getting the shot, in any case. also, try taking panoramas while walking... or with moving people, especially children. it won't work. sometimes you only have less than a second to get a shot.

Apple calls the 56mm lens in the iPhone 7 as a tele-lens. On the other hand, Zeiss calls its Otus 55mm as the "the best standard lens in the world". Is Otus 55mm a tele or a standard lens? I'm so confused...

One negative effect of the "tele-lens definition" by Apple is that people are starting to forget what a "normal" lens is. A "normal" or "standard" lens is not the photographer's favorite lens. If so, as I like to use a 16mm fisheye, a 28mm lens would be a telephoto and a 50 mm a super telephoto lens to me!. This way of thinking is absurd, of course.

The most accepted definition of a normal lens is the one whose focal length is approximately equal to the format diagonal. Thus, for the 35mm format, normal lenses are those with focal lengths around 43mm. In practice this means lenses from 40 to 58mm. Thus, the iPhone's 56mm (equivalent!) should be called a normal lens, not a tele-lens.

in35mm equiv.sensor size.does not matter,true 56mm on a tiny apple sensor would translate to a 336mmfov. the sad fact this lens being touted as a tele lens is a fov of 56mm.. as such , contrary the chorus of sticklers sayin 43mm is normal for technical reasons50 ish mm is normal& it isnt until you get to ~ 75mm in 35 equiv that you can begin to talk about"short tele" i find it sad and telling to see the church of apple trying to redfine photographic precepts & cause 56mm is a 2x fov for apple phone cam that suddenly that defines what a tele now is. to my mind its as silly as accepting ones defacto camera ,an iphone never having the ability to have expandable storage, the simplicity of putting a micro sd card into a computer. or the acceptance that the ubiquitousness of usb does not apply to apple world . iive come to understand that for the apple faithful ,not conforming to the real world , is to redefine "normal" hence a 2x factor to a 27mm fov is telecrazy

Why would anybody need an iphone7/p when the FIRST reason in buying a smart phone would be its image quality , especially when there are (for the moment only one model) smart phones (so, one can do the same things with ot as with the iPhone7) that have way bigger sensor (a so called 1" one) ?

Reality check: Over five years of faulty battery chargers causing did.Apple evaded responsibility. A dishonorable non-response.

Samsung had had 35 problems out of millions of note 7 phones, our for the mathematically challenged, a less than 0.0035% failure rate.

Samsung immediately looked into it, instead of iStonewalling, and took it upon themselves to unilaterally offer quick replacement, the option to pick another phone and be refunded the difference and also for any accessories purchased PLUS $25 goodwill money.

Good luck EVER getting an honorable response like that out of Apple. Never happens, never will.

Of course Samsung fanboys are going to point to so-called Apple malfeasance that didn't exist. For example, Apple always fixes what is proven to be true about their equipment. When the USB C cord on the Macbook Retina turned out to have defect, they sent me a new one without my even asking. The so-called five years of non-response from Apple simply is not true.

Samsung is doing the right thing in recalling all their Note 7s. Better to be safe and save your reputation. Unfortunately for Samsung, a notoriously corrupt company, it's going to take a lot more than one recall to make up for the vast corruption this company has demonstrated for years and years.

apple has, to its shame ,never been forthcoming in correcting issue related to their hardware , or software for that matter

witness i tunes , the worst music management and playback software .... a bloated mess that has caused an amazing amount of damage to personal curators of personal music collections

any i know folks whos photos were decimated as well

further , the music quality offered by i phones is simply subpar .... and they will not address this or correct it until the apple faithful wake up and demand a better product .... sadly the apple faithful will never do that

@tkbslc Samsung made a recall announcement but didn't make an official recall through the Consumer Safety Commission which would require Samsung to stop selling Note 7 and actively track down all buyers.

Samsung's own voluntary recall isn't mandatory so there will be people like photohounds and those guys on Android Authority telling people not to return their phone because it is not unsafe.

For Samsung, the fewer units returned the less they have to write off so this unofficial recall.

While more advanced cameras will always have the edge in dynamic range, sharpness, pure image quality and bokeh, it pleases me to see that mobile photography is booming. The quality is good enough for online media and purposes, and it's the one camera you'll always have with you.

Phone cameras can compensate the dynamic range issue of the sensor for a good Portion, because they are able to do HDR in real time (2 exposures rendered into each other). At least the iPhone is doing well most of the times in this mode.

come on guys. How much would u pay for a naturally occurring 8 color rainbow?Apple just gave us this capability and rallies everyone to create and display wider gamut of colors. This alone is worth the asking price!

I've had the iP6 for two years now and I have no real compulsion to go larger. The benefits of a larger screen are negated by the fact that it won't fit well in my pocket and I can't hold it securely with one hand while out with the dogs.

As always, while they might have two cameras they are doing different things with them.

The G5's second camera is wide angle instead of short-tele like Apple's. A few phones did the fake shallow depth of field before Apple, but then again my Fuji XF1 did it before them so its nice to see all those phones you mentioned playing catchup to what cameras did before.

Because I see that some react very disparagingly about iphone pictures and what it does to photo "culture", here are some that I took the last few months simply because I only had the phone (6+, 2 generations old) with me. All postprocessed directly on the phone with apps.I think the quality is ok, and while a proper camera would have been better, this was the only camera to hand then. Your brutally honest feedback please!

The sample gallery looks really good - all taken in Hong Kong from the looks of it.I currently have the iphone 6+, it is not my "serious" digital camera, and in addition I still enjoy my medium format film cameras. But, I always have it with me. Occasionally I make pictures with it even when on the way to a business meeting. Within its limitations of DOF and low light, the quality can be convincing. In fact I recently made a printed "best of" book with the Printastic app and the quality is perfectly acceptable. The creativity of the photo will elicit more feedback than the technical perfection.I also sometimes quickly convert to black and white directly on the phone, using the hipstamatic app - this one has a few very convincing combinations to convert to b&w, and thus i only do it in photoshop at home for some of my best pictures, to really get the most of it when needed.

What all this leads to: very happy with another incremental camera quality increase in the iphone. This one is 2 generations newer than mine and will lool better already, i will probably only upgrade at the next iteration.

more specifically and truthfully a telephoto lens must have a telephoto group in it as part of the optical formula .... or it simply aint a tele, literary and figuratively .... ill bet apples to oranges this measly short lens the 56 , has no such thing ... no tele group , and as such is only a very slightly long normal , if im being kind.

The sample gallery looks really good - all taken in Hong Kong from the looks of it.I currently have the iphone 6+, it is not my "serious" digital camera, and in addition I still enjoy my medium format film cameras. But, I always have it with me. Occasionally I make pictures with it even when on the way to a business meeting. Within its limitations of DOF and low light, the quality can be convincing. In fact I recently made a printed "best of" book with the Printastic app and the quality is perfectly acceptable. The creativity of the photo will elicit more feedback than the technical perfection.I also sometimes quickly convert to black and white directly on the phone, using the hipstamatic app - this one has a few very convincing combinations to convert to b&w, and thus i only do it in photoshop at home for some of my best pictures, to really get the most of it when needed.

What all this leads to: very happy with another incremental camera quality increase in the iphone. This one is 2 generations newer than mine and will lool better already, i will probably only upgrade at the next iteration.

I frequently see 50-60mm referred to as short tele. And in my opinion Apple picked just the right second lens. The length they have picked has been my most useful lens for 50 years. And finally, it is simply not true that Apple has caused a "flow of garbage photos". Apple has advanced the art of photography and expanded it to millions who were not interested in photos until it became simple. I have used an iPhone 6S (along with other cameras) for close to a year now and am very thankful Apple put such a powerful camera in my pocket. Plus, Apple Photos on my Mac is a very good way to organize and edit your pictures when you don't want the extra effort of Lightroom or Photoshop.

56mm is tele ? apple continues to impoverish photography even lowering expectations in what a tele lens is .... and the apologists are out in full force

please show me any where from any maker or any dp review or product description that describes a 56mm as a tele ..... show me a product description or a review anywhere from any time that calls a 56 mm a tele ..... i defy you !! comb thru sony nikon canon leica panasonic zeiss contax product descriptions

you are full of nonsense ,, and mindless apologists for the mediocrity that is the apple camera phone , and now a 56mm is the new tele ....hahahahhayou are pathetic .... please all of you enjoy the telephoto goodness that is the iphone 7

hhahhahahahhahahahahaa....... you cant make this stuff up

and those of you who are among the unwashed. mass... take a bath!!love your name photouniverse .... wish i thought of it ....

The "socially unacceptable" claim is a different camp. Anyhow 75 dollar, open backed Grados, destroy Beats for sound quality, and Grado is not new to making headphones.

Bose is joke for sound quality, still is, was in say the year 2000 too. First with noise cancelling headphones for general use though, got a pair in 2002, used for jet travel, not great sound, after light use busted by 2005.

For the most part, New Balance makes running shoes for general use that are much more comfortable than those by more famous brands, one has a name that also begins with an N. And good New Balance shoes, have been expensive for at least 30 years.

Right, Apple really needs to improve the sound quality of all the laptops, and iPads.

iTunes, the software, is pretty awful for sound quality too, though I know it improved in the move from version 10 to 11, no improvement with version 12. JRiver and VLC both sound a good deal better on a Mac for audio play back.

iMacs still have decent sound cards, it just seems like Apple couldn't be bothered with decent sound cards for the laptops, and I know they improved things a bit about 2 years ago, but my high end HP laptop has a much better sound card.

I'm beginning to suspect that Apple is planning to drop the further development of Macs, and push iOS devices instead of Macs--still no Macs with Skylake CPUs. Tim Cook doesn't seem to have much of clue about computer tech, for example the purchase of Beats. (Oh and the Apple Music Streaming video from the website that only featured 25 year old white people, 18 months ago, was pretty stupid.)

Bose is not a joke for sound quality. I have owned a pair for ten years now that still work perfectly. I also have two sets of Bose speakers. The Bose headphones are in my opinion one of the products that almost cannot be improved it is so good. Like a Cross Gold Pen. On the other hand the Bose house speakers are very good for home theater but not high quality for music. But sound is a personal preference and everyone is able to have their own opinion.

"The Bose headphones are in my opinion one of the products that almost cannot be improved it is so good." Please. See my point about 75 dollar Grado headphones.

"But sound is a personal preference and everyone is able to have their own opinion." This reads a lot like those who spent the 1970s and 1980s defending things like Perdue chicken as good food. (It's a big US chicken, uncooked, company if you're from outside the USA, and it's all pretty bland--that's being polite).

@HowaboutRAW. "a half decent transistor amp..." sounds like you are looking for is that elusive Tube sound (which is good taste btw) but not Bose is designed for, it's a digital speaker. Something like good old vintage and cheap Marshalls, etc. better suits this need.

(...memories of visiting my uncle's home 30yrs ago - a guitarist & audiophile. As I child I had no idea back then but I remember the music and sound and those big black speakers)

Try a 75 dollar pair of Grados, you can't use them in library though. And Grado has been making headphones for decades. They shame Bose head phones, and don't have the bad reputation for quality control of Bose.

"80 dollar AudioQuest RCA cables"? Before you insult everyone by suggesting that's a cost effective option, you've just proven your lack of knowledge in this field. I have no doubt that you're one of those audiophiles who thinks they can hear differences between 44.1 and 96 KHz and that skin effect is significant when dealing with cable runs of less than several kilometers. Thankfully your breed is a dying one, being replaced by people who actually respect the science, who value objective measurements over using subjective wine tasting language while pretending thats the definition of objective to everyone else and aren't allergic to ABX tests.

"The fact remains..." Not a single thing you've said has any basis in fact. Only in faith--and blind faith at that. Blind studies have consistently found an inability to tell the difference between cheap and expensive cables. Audiophiles consistently tell themselves and everyone around them that they can hear a difference. If you feel that your sound sounds better because of your cables, fine, I'm certainly not going to stop you, but don't try to push your neurosis on anyone else. $400 speakers will never, ever, ever benefit from anything more than Monoprice cables.

Agreeing that 56mm (135 equivelant) is narrower than 28mm (ditto), it's hardly "Tele"! It's not even "Portrait". Indeed, I seem to remember that the F2.0 Helios lens that came attached as standard with my original Zenit B, was 57mm (actual).

More interesting would have been a pair of identical "28mm" cameras at both ends of one of the long sides, to enable you to take landscape format, 3D photos.

Isn't the canon 18mm to 55mm considered to be a tele-photo ? No one Sid that a 58mm is a super tele-photo. If that's what you want then don't look for it in a cell phone. Or go get yourself an add on lens like that 360 8x . The qualit7 stinks but you would have your tele.

pcimaging - no, not on a 35mm frame. But sure, yes, on smaller frames. It's all about that horrible word, "equivalent", that (generally) means, in photographic circles, "equivalent to a lens with the same field of view on a 135 format frame".

55mm on a 24x36mm frame (135, "35mm Full Frame"), _just_ longer than standard, which by convention was defined as 50mm, though more accurately would have been 43.27mm - the diagonal of the frame.

55mm on an 4/3rds sensor gives the same view as 110mm (give or take) on 135, making it a long portrait or short telephoto lens.

55mm on a 6x7 Pentax medium format camera would be distinctly wide-angle - about 25.81mm in 135 terms.

No different than the claim that a given focal length for 135 (35mm) or FF format gives more reach on a crop sensor camera. You are just cropping the image circle projected by the lens more on a smaller sensor. And you don't get more depth of field by putting that lens on crop sensor, UNLESS you assume that you are going to stand farther from the subject to get the same composition as the person using a FF camera. Then you get more DoF because you are farther from the subject. Sensor size does dot effect the physics of a lens. Apple is using the same marketing psychobabble as every camera manufacturer that sells cameras with sensors small than FF.

For those who use cameras in their phones the 56mm gives more control over their images. All Apple has to do is say you have more reach (diff. between 28mm and 56mm) with the longer focal length and leave it at that. Then you would have truthful statement that still is appealing to the market.

That so many are debating what Apple has done with the iPhone camera may speak to the impact Apple has had. Like it or not, that iPhone can take the quality of picture that it does is pretty remarkable. Some like digital, some like analog (some like both)... I like the attention Apple has given the processing of images taken with their product.

For my money, when you're standing at the wall at Sebring and see something and snap a random picture that you want to remember seeing (and hearing) iPhone does a great job, like it or not...

No question - I not only like iPhone, I just LOVE it. And it's time my ageing 4s was retired to domestic duties, as the battery life has become more than a little variable in recent months. Mind you, it's done me 4 years of daily use, and still runs all weekend without a charge if just on standby.

But I still resent a 56mm-(35mm-equivalent) lens being described as "Tele".

Oh . wow .. those earphones are a muggers' delight! Why? . you may say ..... they are sooo expensive. The mugger dudes will grab your drop earing looking earphones (at £159.00 per pair .. I cannot believe that) and sell them to their local pub/ drug dealer for £20.00 or less). However, I have to ask .. who the hell will be brave enough to wear those earphones in public? (Does anyone agree with me?)

i dont agree i carry my xpro 2 with 56mm 1.2 ansd an htc max phone and watch films on the subway and walk thru any hood at any time , and dont give a f u c k ..... but everyone different .... personally i think if you walk in fear and trepidation always your inviting disaster .... a dog knows when you are shaking in your boots so do muggers and thieves

HTC is a joke, even the iPhone 5 has a better camera & better usability. No wonder you're spewing so much nonsense, you have absolutely no clue on what you're blabbering about; & your ENVY is killing you.

He's not nuts - it just depends on where you live. I live in Atlanta. You WOULD be mugged (at gunpoint) most likely not if, but when, if you regularly went out wearing those things. The local thugs for some time have had what you may have heard is called "Apple Picking", where when they see someone visibly using an iPhone in public, they'll run past them at full speed, and then slam them aside the head and literally rip the phone from their hands as they fall to the ground (yes, really). It happened to a local CNN reporter right in front of her house a year or so ago.

Those who walk a lot or ride the subway hear have learned to just use generic black earplugs and hide the phone and not to pull the phone out visibly when walking. It does happen. These new headphones, here, might as well be saying, "Mug me... mug me now".

@jf69i dont give a damn about the camera module htc one maxi use a real camera,not cell garbage m 43 or apsc &a prime.htc is for games & watching films and music and the wonderful 2 weeks standby for use as an actual phone i love that android uses micro sd i keep 3 taped to the imside shell and one inside the phone for about 1 tb of media i love that i dont have to erase my phone to put new content and then suffer the slow write times to put another 200 gb of media ,, apple is in the dark ages using mail to offload pics and other nonsense.... adding 256 gb of new media to my phone takes about 25 seconds

and no to add insult to a dire situation apple has lost the audio miniplug a multidecade standard that apple profit managers have given the middle finger to

it seems pathetic , more so as the brain dead parishioners line up outside the apple store for first holy communion to learn what theyve lost in the latest handset....

While arguing the finer points, everybody seems to be missing the only point that matters. The best camera is the one you have and its corollary, "Get the shot." Virtually nobody besides the dedicated photographer niche carries around a phone and camera. They carry around phones that take photos/vids.

Another reality ignored here: For the general public print is virtually dead. The quality required for an image need not be beyond the capacity of the display, and 12Mp DNGs and 4K more than fill the bill.

The iPhone 7 will take beautiful photos/vids for the the medium they are aimed at. All dedicated consumer cameras are on the way to extinction, and the iPhone 7 and their competitors are accelerating the process. That's the reality. Deal with it.

i have a camera with me every day sometimes a compact x20 or x 30 sometime the olympus xa sometimes the penf sometimes the xpro2

here in nyc where i live many many people use cameas every day

people are becoming more simple minded by the day and lack basic knowledge about culture music and science geography .basically everything ..... it amazing, and quite sad.... here in the usa where i live, the average person is a moron ...i deal with it every day

jungle fever 69 .... go soak your head... or play with you 4.3 inch.........................iphone your simple minded need to attack me reminds me of the barely can string a sentence together crowd around trump .... you know that fake billionaire running for potus.... your tone here paints you as an early supporter ,lol

dslrs will go the way of the dinosaurs, pros will continue using them for some time longer but eventually that'll be eclipsed as well. Eventually all the photons we could possibly desire will be manufactured for us for our pleasure from inside the matrix, no more OOF images thankfully! lol

Yet another annoying item to charge. Can't charge and listen, unless I handover way too much money for wireless earplugs that are easily lost. Oh yeah, going on a trip, a 15 hour flight, I guess I need to buy 3 sets of these earplugs, because they only last 5 hours. What a crap for $200!

What problem do they believe they have solved? Do they realize they created 3 problems by removing the jack?

Digeni5, no-one is claiming this phone is a Scuba camera - but IP67 is enough to use the camera, unprotected, in or around pools, the beach, on boats, in the rain and more. And compared to the instant-death models we've had so far, this is NOT to be poo-pooed.

Not trying to poo-poo the effort at all. Just correcting "waterproof" claims by a poster.

iPhone 7 is not that they even use the words "water resistant".

Directly from Apple:

"Splash and water resistant"

And....when you read the fine print you get this stunning sign of how they really feel - including a statement about damage from liquids not covered in your warranty. Hmmmmm

Again snipped from Apple:"iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are splash, water, and dust resistant and were tested under controlled laboratory conditions with a rating of IP67 under IEC standard 60529. Splash, water, and dust resistance are not permanent conditions and resistance might decrease as a result of normal wear. Do not attempt to charge a wet iPhone; refer to the user guide for cleaning and drying instructions. Liquid damage not covered under warranty."

The 30 minutes at 1 m is the test condition. For example the phone is not moved in the test. It does not mean one could really submerge it to one meter and expect it to survive (sure with luck it can).

I once thought the same, but upon hearing the Solo2 wireless headphones - with the phone EQ set to "bass reducer" (important) - I was pleasantly surprised how good they sounded. And I am an audio engineer with playback equipment that costs far in excess of any Beats product. They have the clarity, don't be mistake. It just requires toning down the excessive voicing of the low frequencies.

And you can't deny that the existence of Beats itself has created a renaissance in headphones. Before Beats, there weren't nearly as many viable audiophile-quality headphones that could be driven by mobile devices. Now you can find one for every taste in sound signature.

It's not Beats driving the development of better headphones for PMPs (personal music players). It's much stronger small magnets, which is what allows also allow much more powerful battery operated tools for construction, and the fact that decent DACs have gotten much cheaper in the last 5 years. (Unfortunately for Apple, they haven't used a decent DAC in their portable devices since the first iPod. And the sound-cards, AKA DACs, in Mac laptops suck.)

Oh, and if you can use open back headphones, any 75 dollar pair of Grados will destroy Beats for sound quality.

HowaboutRAW: Grado has a radically different sound signature from Beats, so you can't really compare them. If treble-heavy sound sounds good to you, or you listen to genres that benefit from treble heavy sound, then yes, you'll be better off with Grados than with Beats. That's not necessarily true for the next person. The treble-heavy sound signature of the Grados works well with rock music, while the bass-heavy (with balanced trebles and mids) sound signature of the Beats works well with hip hop and electronic music. Neither are anywhere near neutral enough to work with all genres, unless your ears are simply biased in favor of one sound signature or the other, and neither will work well as a studio monitor headphone.

And I don't plan to sing the praises of any Beats headphone but the Solo2. The rest are junk, but the Solo2 has caught the attention of many audiophile reviewers and communities, and when I tried it with compatible genres it sounded brilliant.

HowaboutRAW: Yes, rare earth magnets were a game changer, but I'd like to point out that before Beats it was socially unacceptable to spend $300 on headphones, it was something only doctors, lawyers, jetsetters and executives did, and as far as the public was concerned, they were buying Bose. Last time I was shopping for headphones, back in, oh, 2007, there was much less choice available. It was pretty much, if you want portable headphones, you buy PX100s--and you don't even know those exist unless headphones are a thing that you already knew you wanted. Beats made it into the public consciousness, and Sennheiser didn't. Rare earth magnets made the technology possible, but MP3 players and smartphones gave it a market, and Beats made it acceptable to look upmarket.

The "socially unacceptable" claim is a different camp. Anyhow 75 dollar, open backed Grados, destroy Beats for sound quality, and Grado is not new to making headphones.

Bose is joke for sound quality, still is, was in say the year 2000 too. First with noise cancelling headphones for general use though, got a pair in 2002, used for jet travel, not great sound, after light use busted by 2005.

For the most part, New Balance makes running shoes for general use that are much more comfortable than those by more famous brands, one has a name that also begins with an N. And good New Balance shoes, have been expensive for at least 30 years.

you people arguing about Beats, Grando and Bose, and I'm sitting here with my $25 Sennheiser over-the-year headphones thinking "best purchase ever". not to mention they have replaceable cups... on a $25 item. and a long cable, and came with a 6.3mm jack adapter. ok, they are pretty ugly, but man they sound awesome!

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